Skip Caray is finalist for broadcasting award
The late Skip Caray, an iconic voice of the Braves for more than three decades, is a finalist for the Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting.
Other finalists are Billy Berroa, Tom Cheek, Jacques Doucet, Lanny Frattare, Graham McNamee, Jon Miller, Joe Nuxhall, Herb Score and Dave Van Horne. Only Miller and Van Horne are active broadcasters.
The winner will be announced Feb. 1 and honored during the July 23-26 Hall of Fame induction weekend in Cooperstown, N.Y.
The award, established by the Hall of Fame in 1978, will be voted on by a 20-man electorate made up of past winners and baseball historians.
Caray spent 33 years in the Braves' booth before his death at age 68 on Aug. 3, 2008. Longtime partner Pete Van Wieren also retired at the end of that 2008 season and Braves fans were left without the broadcasting pair who had been as widely recognized as any of the team's star players when Braves games were carried nationally on TBS Superstation.
Caray was the son of legendary Chicago broadcaster Harry Caray, who won the Frick Award in 1989. Skip's son, Chip Caray, is a current Braves broadcaster.
